Department leadership and spokespeople have consistently labeled these shooting victims as violent agitators, dangerous criminals or "illegal aliens" attempting to attack law enforcement with their vehicles. It’s a pattern of vehicles being used as weapons by violent agitators to attack our law enforcement,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told NBC. ‌The people who have been shot by federal agents since September include U.S. citizens, suspected criminals and immigrants without permanent legal status, four of whom died. In at least six of the cases, the people shot by agents were charged with crimes. Noem, meanwhile, quickly stripped investigatory access from Minnesota authorities over Good's killing earlier this month, and President Donald Trump and others in the administration have dubiously claimed that federal officers have total immunity.